costumes – Page 2 – Megan Rose

Design Process Year 1 Semester 2…

Posted on January 31, 2015 by meganRose

Year 1, Semester 2 at the Whitehouse Institute of Design… Our brief for this semester was to design and make a full body outfit of two – three garments and channelling a Spring/Summer aesthetic.

At Whitehouse, the design process is truly treated like it would be in INDUSTRY.

After many sketches and alterations… the images pictured below show my final design. I had to propose variations to my teacher before these final illustrations (both technical and styled) could be submitted to the Head of Design for signing off. After the design was approved I then had to begin making toiles of my each of the pieces.

At the end of the semester, I had to present my body, fully styled, to a panel of judges. This involved organising a model, hair, make-up, shoes and accessories to complement my design. Thank you to Kearna Philpott for modelling and Victoria University students for the hair and make-up.

The Whitehouse

Posted on October 5, 2013October 11, 2013 by meganRose

Next year I plan on continuing my studies in the world of fashion at the Whitehouse Institute of Design. I have an interview at the Melbourne campus at the end of November with which I hope all goes well and they accept me to complete a Bachelor of Design, majoring in Fashion Design.

The ‘Whitehouse’ is a private art and design college which is notorious as one of the leading Design Institutes in Australia.

The establishment is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this year after being founded in 1988 by the one and only, Leanne Whitehouse.

The warehouse like display and work area on the first floor of the Melbourne campus is one of the most amazing spaces I have ever entered. When I walked in I could not help but think of all the opportunities that would be offered to me in this space if I was to be accepted.

My Pinterest

Posted on October 5, 2013October 5, 2013 by meganRose

The urban dictionary defines Pinterest as a social networking site that allows you to figuratively ‘pin’ pictures of your likes and interests in a simple organised fashion. It is a pin board style, photo sharing website.

The number of daily users of Pinterest has increased by 145% in the last 18 months. It has generated more referral traffic to websites than YouTube, Google+ and Linked In combined.

Style and fashion is the third most popular category on Pinterest.

My Pinterest Page: http://www.pinterest.com/meganrosesdi/

The Artist

Posted on July 30, 2013 by meganRose

The Artist is a film that was released in 2011 but is made as an old black and white film. Costume designer for the film, Mark Bridges, had to think about elements of design that he had not had to consider before.

Mark Bridges is an American costume designer, born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York. He received a master’s of fine arts degree in costume design from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 1987.

He has also designed the costumes for the films, Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter and Blow.

As the film is in black and white, Bridges had to think about how each of the costumes would look in this colour tone. He experimented with many different colours and materials to see what shade of grey they would give off.

One of the costumes that he made was an off shade of orange and the colours didn’t necessarily look nice. But when the filming was changed to black and white, the tones were so complementary of each other and it worked.

Bridges won five awards for costume design from this film.

The Hollywood Costume Exhibition

Posted on May 13, 2013 by meganRose

My sister decided she would give me a surprise on the weekend and took me to the ACMI museum in Federation Square, in Melbourne.

I had not heard about this exhibition at all so it was very exciting to be surprised. I was so keen to get down into the exhibition and start looking around.

The exhibition was about showcasing pieces from all different Hollywood movies. The first piece that you see hanging from the ceiling is Nicole Kidman’s light pink costume from Moulin Rouge. You then go through to rooms and rooms of costumes from other blockbuster movies.

One of my favourite pieces was Roxie Hart’s long black beaded dress from the film Chicago. The detail in it was so impressive and I loved the sleek design.

Keira Knightley’s green dress from the film Atonement was another of my favourite pieces. I found reading about this item was really interesting. The director wanted to portray a sense of vulnerability so the designer used this idea to create a piece that was almost nude like in its structure.

Judy Garland’s Dorothy costume from the 1939 rendition of the Wizard of Oz was also there. The actual dress was the original; however the ruby slippers were recreated as of 2012. This piece was a real ring in for the exhibition and I witnesses lots of little girls admiring the red sparkles on the shoes.

It was really special to see all of these blockbuster costumes and although all I wanted to do was touch them, I still found the whole experience fascinating.